Haiku Smart Ceiling Fan Review 

Great! I’m glad to hear that.

+jerry kurata thanks for the comment! I got an Echo recently, which I featured in the Haiku light review, and I’ve really enjoyed the functionality that it enables with the Haiku products. I wish I would have had that for the fan review. With ecobee, neither use each other’s sensors. It does allow the fan to know what temperature you’re trying to achieve in the room and to speed up or slow down depending on what the actual temperature is. Pretty handy.

No it doesn’t. But it’s still a neat feature to vary the speed briefly to simulate a breeze.

+Randomness For fun yeah, hopefully it will continue to come down. However, a lot of the cost is wrapped up in the premium materials as well.

3 years later: higher price

@@mitch5800 lol

Thanks! I try to give hints in my videos about upcoming videos I’m working on. That was my nod toward the treehouse series I did shortly after that.

+simpleinseattle interesting. Once the Haiku and ecobee are paired there's nothing else to do. Whenever your ecobee is in heat mode the Haiku fan uses smarter heating mode and when the ecobee is in cool mode the Haiku uses smarter cooling. If you run your ecobee in auto mode then the fan will switch back and forth accordingly depending on what the ecobee is doing. It's a great system!

+David Beiler agreed. Unfortunately I didn't have an echo at the time. I do now and it works really well. I briefly demoed it in my Haiku light review if you haven't seen that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q9mOnF8f4M8.html You can adjust the light brightness and the fan speed by voice. Pretty slick.

To my knowledge they only work with ecobee. If you’re not familiar with ecobee I have a review of the ecobee 3 and ecobee 4 thermostats on my channel if you’re interested. They’re great thermostats.

I was on Haiku’s website recently and it turns out they now work with Nest as well. www.haikuhome.com/partners

No, but I’ve always wanted to visit there.

Yes, the fan light came out first and the standalone light was newer and therefore had more functionality. The rumor was they were going to update the fan light at some point to a light that can adjust color temp but I don’t think that’s happened. They also have stopped selling the stand alone lights and plan to re-enter that market at some point in the future. That’s a bummer too because I like those lights a lot!

@@Jjcoolstuff Thank you for the clarification. Yes, I want one of these fans, but if I cannot change the color away from the dated "yellow" look, well then that is a major bummer.

+Danarius M. The light is really bright as is but it's very directional. The standalone light has a lot more LEDs and is brighter. It wouldn't surprise me if they included some of that technology in their fan lights at some point.

+OMGWTFLOL yeah, it’s certainly not for everyone. Gotta love those Costco deals!

+A Commentator check out the video at 7:20 where I cover that.

Have you followed up with them on the lifetime warranty? They should make it right.

@@Jjcoolstuff Warranty is over. Replaced the electrical set inside the fan costing about 133 USD. The fan is working now. Thx

spleen pirate same

Cromulent

+G man buy the Tesla first and then use the money you save in gas to buy the fan. 😉

+Markus Frohlich did you make it all the way through the video? There are so many more features than what a smart light switch can provide. Like scheduling the fan speed or light brightness. Better yet, dynamically changing the fan speed based on the temperature in the room. It is a pricey fan, but a $30 smart light switch definitely won't even begin to touch what you get from this fan.

I have seen the whole video and I like it in and of itself. As stated above, however, I am merely interested in automizing the fan so I can control it with the echo. I am not saying this is a bad product, but for what I am looking for, it's just not feasible.

+Markus Frohlich thanks, I partially misunderstood your comment then. It's probably not worth the price to you, but with this fan you can not only turn the fan and/or light on and off with the Echo but you can also control the brightness and the fan speed. Pretty slick.

Yeah, you can definitely get brighter lights. That’s not what they were going for. This is 1280 lumens but looks really slick and will last a very long time.

With a really efficient motor, the heat generated isn’t significant. However, you’re correct that fans don’t cool rooms. What they do is make you feel cooler by moving air across your skin. Similar to the normal temp outside and the “real feel”. The fan interacts with the thermostat to know what the temp is in the room and what you would like the temp to be. If the temp is rising and you’d prefer it be cooler, the fan will increase speed to help you feel cooler, not to actually lower the temp in the room necessarily. Though one could argue that when the fan picks up speed it moves the warmer air from near the ceiling and allows it to be better processed by the HVAC to actually cool the room better.

I see what you did there 👏

+mbiker7 I thought so too at first. But there's no way you're making this kind of quality product in the US and standing behind it like they do for only $200-300. Just a nice normal ceiling fan is around $200. I do wish they could figure out how to make them a little cheaper and open this up to a wider customer base.

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